Strange Cargo, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Peter Lorre

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Strange Cargo, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Peter Lorre
Strange Cargo, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Peter Lorre
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You are bidding on an ORIGINAL "coming attraction" Movie Glass/Lantern Slide that was designed to promote the theatrical release of the 1940, adventure feature, "Strange Cargo".
I am Auctioning off my entire collection of
Movie Glass Slides
this week (over 100). Please check out some of these titles:
1935, R48,
A Night at the Opera
, The Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico), Margaret Dumont,
SOLD
1939 -
Alleghany Uprising
, John Wayne, Claire Trevor
1939 -
Destry Rides Again
, Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart
1939 -
Gunga Din
, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Joan Fontaine
1939 -
The Roaring Twenties
, James Cagney,
Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane
1940 -
Boom Town
, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr
1940 -
Brigham Young
, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger
1940 -
Charlie Chan in Panama
, Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Victor Sen Yung
,
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1940 -
Gone With The Wind
, Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, Olivia de Havilland
,
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1940 -
His Girl Friday
, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
1940 -
Knute Rockne, All American
, Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan
1940 -
Santa Fe Trail
,
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
1940 -
Strike Up the Band
, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland
1940 -
The Great Walt Disney Festival of Hits
, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
,
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1940 -
The Green Hornet Strikes Again
, Warren Hull, Keye Luke
,
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1940 -
The Mark of Zorro
, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell
,
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1940 -
The Return of Frank James
, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper
1940 -
Virginia City
, Errol Flynn, Mariam Hopkins,
Humphrey Bogart,
1941 -
High Sierra
, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino
,
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1941 -
Strawberry Blonde
, James Cagney,
Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
1941 -
Suspicion
- Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine (directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
,
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1941 -
The Little Foxes
, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
1941 -
The Great Lie
,
Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
1942, R49 -
The Pride of the Yankees
, Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth
, Teresa Wright
1948 -
Fort Apache
, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
1949 -
Little Women
- June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Lawford
,
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1949 -
The Fighting Kentuckian
,
John Wayne, Oliver Hardy, Vera Ralston
1950 -
Fancy Pants
, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot
1950 -
Father of the Bride
, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor
1950 -
The Asphalt Jungle
, Marilyn Monroe, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern
1950 -
Sunset Boulevard
, William Holden, Gloria Swanson
,
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And Many, Many More Great Titles...
This hand colored glass slide is an ORIGINAL and it is NOT a reproduction. It was created to be projected onto the movie theatre screen before the film was released to promote the "coming attraction". Some people in the movie collectible world have said, that, glass slides are much rarer than the paper poster memorabilia from the same film and are very rare pieces of film history.
Format:
Glass Slide: 3 1/4" x 4"
Plot Summary:
Verne (Clark Gable) wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South America. He tries to involve Julie (Joan Crawford), a saloon girl, in his plans but she turns him in to the authorities. On Verne's next try, he piggybacks on the escape of six other convicts and runs into Julie again in the process. One of the convicts is a spiritual figure who seems to know what will happen before anyone else. The group attempts to travel through the jungle, board a boat, and make it to the mainland.
Trivia
:
The eighth and final on screen pairing of Joan Crawford and Clark Gable.
Although Crawfod was top-billed on all release prints, Gable's name was first in all publicity material. This was his first film following Gone with the Wind (1939).
Joan Crawford's wardrobe consisted of three ready-to-wear dresses which cost under and she wore one of them throughout the twenty-seven days of filming.
Joan Crawford intended to portray her character without any make-up but Crawford later told 'Silver Screen' magazine that she cheated and used Vaseline on her eyelids, eyebrows, and lips to retain moisture. In one scene while using the top of an old tomato can as a mirror Crawford applied brilliantine to her hair.
Studio:
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Date:
1940
Genre:
D
rama
, Adventure, Romance
Director(s):
Frank Borzage
Producer(s):
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast
:
Clark Gable – André Verne
Joan Crawford - Julie
Ian Hunter – Cambreau
Peter Lorre – M'sieu Pig
Paul Lukas – Hessler
Albert Dekker – Moll
J. Edward Bromberg – Flaubert
Eduardo Ciannelli – Telez
John Arledge – Dufond
Frederick Worlock – Grideau (billed as Frederic Worlock)
Bernard Nedell – Marfeu
Victor Varconi – Fisherman
Paul Fix – Benet
More Info on Clark Gable
:
Clark Gable was born William Clark Gable in Cadiz, Ohio in 1901. His mom died before he was one year old, and his dad re-married when he was two. His stepmom encouraged him to pursue singing, playing music, and acting. Gable left home at 16 and had odd jobs, but at 21 came into an inheritance and began trying to make a living acting. He moved to Oregon, where he met Josephine Dillon, a stage manager 17 years older than he was. She immediately recognized Gable's great potential, and became his personal "coach", teaching him acting, and also paying to have his teeth fixed and to dress better. In 1924 they moved to Hollywood and were married, and she also officially became his "manager". But Gable only got bit parts in movies, and he returned to the stage, first in Houston and then in New York. After he played a killer in The Last Mile on Broadway to much acclaim, he was signed by MGM to a contract, in 1930 and he also divorced his wife and immediately married again. In 1931, Gable was the lead "heavy" in in The Painted Desert, a cowboy movie starring William Boyd, and he also appeared in 12 other MGM movies that year! Most were pretty minor roles, but Joan Crawford had spotted him and asked for him to play a key role in
Dance, Fools, Dance
, and they ended up making a total of eight films together, and they had an on-again off-again affair for many years, including when one or both were married! Gable was the top male star of the 1930s, and his good friend Spencer Tracy dubbed him the King of Hollywood, and the nickname stuck. He co-starred opposite every top female MGM star, most notably Crawford and Jean Harlow. In 1934 MGM "loaned" Gable to Columbia to make
It Happened One Night
, and he won the Best Actor Oscar. In 1939 he was loaned to David Selznick to make
Gone With the Wind
, so ironically, even though Gable is strongly identified with MGM, his two greatest hits were made for other studios (although MGM did distribute Gone With the Wind). In 1935 Gable made The
Call of the Wild
with Loretta Young, and they had an affair, which resulted in a baby, and since that could have meant the end of both their careers, Young took a year off and pretended to adopt her own baby! In 1939 Gable divorced again and immediately married again, this time to film star
Carole Lombard
. By all accounts they were very happy together, but in 1942, Lombard was killed in a plane crash while selling war bonds, and Gable was devastated, and joined the Army Air Force at the age of 41. There he made recruiting films, but also went on five combat missions. After the war, Gable married two more times, in 1949, and in 1955. His post-War movies are mostly not very good, in part because Gable insisted on always playing a romantic lead, often with a much younger leading lady. In 1961 he was paired with Marilyn Monroe (and Mongomery Clift) in
The Misfits
, and that proved to be both Gable and Monroe's final movie. Gable had been a heavy smoker and drinker all his life, and he wanted to look his best opposite Marilyn, and he went on a crash diet, and soon after the movie was finished he had a heart attack, passing away in 1960 at the age of 59. Four months after his death, his wife gave birth to their son, John Clark Gable. If you want to understand why Gable was such an incredibly popular male star (maybe the greatest of all time) I suggest you begin with It Happened One Night. Gable is wonderful, as is the entire movie!
More Info on Joan Crawford
:
Joan Crawford was born Lucille LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas in 1905 (later, she would claim she was born in 1908). Her father left her mother before she was born, and her mother re-married while she was a toddler, and for a while she grew up thinking that man was her father. Her mother divorced and re-married yet again before she was 16, moving to Kansas City. Lucille (now called Billie Cassin) started dancing as a chorus girl in Chicago, Detroit and New York City. In 1925, she went to Hollywood, and after her first movie, Pretty Ladies (where she was billed as
Lucille Le Sueur
), a movie magazine held a contest to pick her new name and the winning entry was Joan Crawford. Crawford had more determination to be a star than any other actress, before or since. One of her early major roles was as the love interest in Harry Langdon's Tramp, Tramp, Tramp in 1926, and by 1928 she had appeared in 24 movies, some small parts and some important ones. In 1928, she had the starring role in
Our Dancing Daughters
, and that made her a major star. In 1931, she made Laughing Sinners with up and coming star Clark Gable, which led to a series of movies they co-starred in (they also had a years long affair!). Throughout the 1930s, Crawford was one of MGM's top stars, in films like Grand Hotel, Rain, and
The Women
, plus a slew of romantic melodramas. She had a quickie marriage in 1923, and in 1929 she married Douglas Fairbanks Jr., which lasted until 1933, and in 1935 she married Franchot Tone, which lasted until 1939. In 1940, while unmarried, she adopted a daughter, Christina. In 1942, she married Phillip Terry, and together they adopted a boy, but their marriage only lasted until 1946. In 1943, after 18 years, MGM and Joan parted ways, by mutual consent. But Joan was not willing to fade from the limelight, and she made several very memorable movies with Warner Bros, including
Mildred Pierce
(winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Humoresque, Possessed (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Sudden Fear (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and
Flamingo Road
. My very favorite movie of hers is the bizarre 1954 Nicholas Ray western, Johnny Guitar (if you have not seen it, I highly recommend it!). By 1956, however, her career was finally winding down, and she married Alfred Steele, President and CEO of the Pepsi-Cola Company. This might have worked out well for her, but he passed away in 1959, and Joan stayed on the Board of Directors of Pepsi until her forced retirement in 1973. In the 1960s, Joan, still not willing to "fade away" appeared in a series of increasingly low budget horror movies, the best of which was
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
with Bette Davis, with whom Joan had had a bitter feud for years in the 1930s and 1940s. Joan passed away in 1977 at the age of 71.
More Info on Ian Hunter
:
Ian Hunter was a South African actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: The Adventures of Robin Hood,
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
, and The Little Princess. He passed away in 1975 at the age of 75.
More Info on Peter Lorre
:
Peter Lorre (born Laszlo Lowenstein) was an Austro-Hungarian born (in what is now Slovakia) actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. He was an incredible actor, but because of his small size, odd looks, and thick accent, he was limited in the types of roles he could play. He started out in German movies, and had the starring role in Fritz Lang's "
M
" in 1931, and in 1933, he left Germany, because he was Jewish and knew he needed to escape the Nazis, and he moved to London, where he made "
The Man Who Knew Too Much
" for Alfred Hitchcock. Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia Pictures, was very taken by Lorre and signed him to a contract, and for eight months, he allowed Lorre to research several projects, trying to find the perfect one for which he would make his Hollywood debut in. But Lorre wanted to make "Kaspar Hauser", and perhaps Cohn did not feel it was commercial enough, because the movie was never made, and then Cohn loaned Lorre to MGM to star in "Mad Love", so ironically, his Hollywood debut was not for Columbia, who had invested so much in him! After making "
Crime and Punishment
" for Columbia in the U.S. with Josef von Sternberg in 1935, he then returned to England to make "Secret Agent", again with Alfred Hitchcock. He then permanently moved to Hollywood, but Columbia had difficulty finding roles worthy of him, and he left the studio in 1937. He then starred in a series of "
Mr. Moto
" movies for 20th Century-Fox, where he played a Japanese detective. He was considered for the title role in "
Son of Frankenstein
", but he didn't want to make another horror movie, but those were mostly all he was being considered for, and he appeared in "Stranger on the Third Floor" and "You'll Find Out" for RKO. He then got another breakout role as Joel Cairo in "
The Maltese Falcon
" in 1941, and he followed it with another wonderful performance as Ugarte in "
Casablanca
" the next year, and he appeared in seven more movies with Sidney Greenstreet at Warner Bros. He had another wonderful performance as Dr. Einstein in Frank Capra's "
Arsenic and Old Lace
" in 1944, a black comedy. His later years did not have as many memorable performances, but he was the very first James Bond villain in the 1954 TV adaptation of "
Casino Royale
", and he stood out in the 1954 Disney movie "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", and he was wonderful opposite Steve McQueen in the 1960 "Man from the South" episode of "
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
". In the early 1960s, he made some appearances in Roger Corman movies. He passed away in 1964 at the age of 59.
More Info on Paul Lukas:
Paul Lukas was an Austro-Hungarian actor from the 1910s to the 1970s. He was born in 1891, and became an actor in 1918 in Austria, and he made movies there for nearly ten years before moving to Hollywood in 1927. He achieved his greatest success in his 40s, winning the Academy Award in 1943 for "
Watch on the Rhine
". In his later years, he began appearing on the stage in New York City, making fewer and fewer movie and TV appearances. He passed away in 1971 at the age of 80.
More Info on Albert Dekker
:
Albert Dekker was a stage and film actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: Dr. Cyclops, East of Eden, Kiss me Deadly, and The Wild Bunch. Sadly, Dekker died of VERY unusual circumstances in 1968 (he was found hanged, blindfolded, and gagged, with explicit words written on his body in red lipstick!). Bizarrely, his death was ruled accidental. He was only 62 years old.
More Info on Eduardo Ciannelli
:
Eduardo Ciannelli (30 August 1888 – 8 October 1969), was an Italian baritone and character actor with a long career in American films, mostly playing gangsters and criminals. He was sometimes credited as Edward Ciannelli.
His Hollywood career consists of close to 150 film and television appearances. Notable among these are
Marked Woman
(1937) with Bette Davis,
Strange Cargo
(1940) with Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and perhaps his most famous role, as the fanatical Thuggee guru in
Gunga Din
(1939) with Cary Grant. In the 1940 serial Mysterious Doctor Satan, he played the eponymous villain, an evil scientist with an army of robots.
In the 1950s and throughout the 1960s, he divided his time among Italian films such as The City Stands Trial, directed by Luigi Zampa,[2] Attila (1954) with Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren, Helen of Troy (1956), appearances in American TV shows such as Climax Mystery Theater, The Time Tunnel, Perry Mason,
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Johnny Staccato, The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor, Dr. Kildare and a few films including
Houseboat
(1958), The Visit (1964), The Chase (1966) with Marlon Brando, and The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), with Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani.
More Info on Paul Fix
:
Paul Fix was an actor from the 1920s to the 1970s. He is best remembered for playing Marshal Micah Torrance on TV's "
The Rifleman
", opposite Chuck Connors. Some of his movies include: Lucky Star, South of the Rido Grande, The Crooked Road,
Red River
, Johnny Guitar, and Shenandoah. He passed away in 1983 at the age of 82.
More Info on Joseph L. Mankiewicz
:
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and won consecutively for both the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and
All About Eve
(1950), the latter of which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six.
Comfortable in a variety of genres and able to elicit career performances from actors and actresses alike, Mankiewicz combined ironic, sophisticated scripts with a precise, sometimes stylized mise en scène. Mankiewicz worked for seventeen years as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and as a producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before getting a chance to direct at Twentieth Century Fox. Over six years he made 11 films for Fox.
During his over 40-year career in Hollywood, Mankiewicz wrote forty-eight screenplays. He also produced more than twenty films including
The Philadelphia Story
which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941.
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Slide Condition:
The Glass Slide is NM, the cardboard holder VG-EX+ (shows some wear)
. Please see the scans for actual condition.
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